RvP – Remarkable, Virtuosic, a Premium striker.
Robin van Persie Clap clap clap clap clap. I know the chant de jour is Nasri’s, but by jove, hearing the crowd chant for RvP thouroughly warms my cockles. The guy is pure class, it’s amazing that he had not scored a hat-trick for Arsenal before this game and when he blazed that penalty into row Z it was easy to think that the hat-trick would have to wait another game.
Rvp takes his tally to 6 this season, that's starts and goals.
Wengerball 0 – 0 Catenaccio, a clash of ideologies.
I’ve been planning to do a review the Christmas and New Year’s fixtures as a whole instead of individual matches. Not only because the schedule made the set of matches interdependent but because I’m a wee bit lazy and was otherwise occupied over the festive season. However I will postpone that post for another day and look at last night’s game against Manchester City as it was a clash of cultures, finances, and heads.
Sagna and Zabelta lock horns, may be a lot more to it than just frustration.
Champions league a 12 million pound draw
Lots of talk and bluster about the possible opponents in the next round of the Uefa Champions League. A trip to Germany or Spain awaits The Arsenal, while there is actually a 75 percent chance of avoiding Barcelona, the prevailing wisdom says a trip to Catalonia awaits us.
Barcelona, Real Madrid, Schalke, or Bayern Munich awaits Arsenal
Arsenal still on form.
Yep, Fergie plays 4-5-1, yep we get plenty of possesion, yep Arsenal fail to break down the defence, concede a fluke/brilliant goal, and once again lose to United as we’ve done in the last so many games I can’t keep count. Once again we’ve failed to turn up against our closest rivals
Tech-9 beaten by a preposterous Park header/deflection
Arsenal eases past Partizan to next round.
I wrote yesterday that it’s the fans who seem to push the panic button when the opposition scores, not the players on the pitch. As it happened, last night with 6 minutes gone in the second half the oft maligned Arsenal back four —incidentally a four of which only one is a guaranteed starter— contrived to set fans running to panic stations.
Samir Nasri adds another sublime goal to his upcoming DVD
Solving the Arsenal defensive problems.
We know it, the manager knows it, the players know it, and the opposition knows it. Arsenal cannot defend, so what will Arsène is going to do about it?. Well according to Le Boss he’s not really worried about that, but what does he know eh? Read on →
Top of the league counts for nothing.
Arsenal are in danger of becoming a one man team, as Nasri took it upon himself to send Fulham back to their cottage with a scintillating display of dribbling skills and close control. Yet it only goes to show that we still depend on one or two players to scrape past relegation fodder like Fulham.
Samir Nasri turning Arsenal into a one man show.